Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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  1. 4D AGO

    The Perils of Overcommunication (CIB #236)

    CIB takes a slight detour before getting into the news of the week with a discussion that centers around the question: can too much communication actually be bad? That plus Strassmann on the Gulf and 70s kids movies full of bad words. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe’s Favorite Day of the Year, Non-Federal Holiday Version7:02 — The Perils of Overcommunication!46:50 — Abe and Friends vs Spicy Noodles54:38 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump mad at CBS News again; tariffs rolled back; PA governor assassination attempt1:18:13 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:24:41 — Bill Maher Goes to Washington1:34:55 — Wrap-up! The Amateur; The Bad News Bears Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    1h 55m

  2. APR 10

    "You make me sad." (CIB #235)

    Plenty of fun to be had this week yapping about all the stupid stuff happening in the world, even if we are a couple of days behind the news at this point. Also, a new study says phone are actually BETTER for your kids’ mental health, and Mark Strassmann goes to the midwest in search of some sad sisters to lay a nasty pun upon. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe in the World, Charleston, SC Edition10:40 — WGAS NewsBag; Tariffs Talk!56:12 — WGAS continued; DOJ suspends attorney for acknowledging bogus deportation; Laura Loomer from HR; SignalGate explained?1:15:21 — Reason says phones are fine, actually, again1:25:15 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Get Off a Good One?1:41:09 — Wrap-up! Adolescence; Inside Out 2; Shoresy; Dying for Sex; White Lotus finale Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    2h 32m

  3. APR 1

    We are the Real Voice of America (CIB #234)

    CIB mostly aimlessly meanders through the news of the week in this episode, with thoughts on the ongoing fallout from the leaked Signal group chat, Trump’s executive orders to defund public and state-sponsored media, and plenty of other headlines. Also, though this doesn’t come up in our discussion of The White Lotus—if we’re right in suggesting that the audience’s appetite is what drives content on various news media platforms, what does The White Lotus’s various weird incest plotlines say about that audience’s appetite? Yeesh. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe wrestling a mountain in Syphilis Town, GA11:41 — WGAS NewsBag; Voice of America defunded, other executive orders, SignalGate continues1:03:03 — Quitting social media won’t make your life better; lawyer claims client deported to El Salvador not a gang member; Marine La Pen banned from running for public office; NYT’s article on US involvement in Ukraine’s fight against Russia1:30:11 — Wrap-up! A Working Man; Scream 5; The White Lotus Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    2h 13m

  4. MAR 26

    We Keep Dumping the Turd Right Back into the Punchbowl (CIB #233)

    Today on the show we’re discussing the fact that you can do everything right in this tough old world and still end up getting in trouble because some meddling journalist refused to do the right thing and exit himself from the group chat BEFORE you started discussing war plans with your buddies. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — DangeRuss Wilson, NYFG, FML6:45 — Subject: Should we bomb Yemen? CC: Prominent magazine editor39:53 — Trump admin claims “mandate of the electorate” allows them to deport any non-citizen without oversight56:14 — Our Bogus Future: 23andMe bankruptcy1:09:16 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:17:22 — “Governor Hot Wheels”1:20:42 — Wrap-up! The Alto Knights; Adolescence; The Electric State Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    1h 56m

  5. MAR 19

    Fasting on Mecca Time (CIB #232)

    It’s another week of lawless anti-American nonsense from the Trump administration, couched ever more frequently in appeals to the underlying popularity of the things Trump is aiming to do. This is a democracy, after all, so why should something like the pesky law get in the way of the apparent will of the people? CIB goes full MAGA?! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Lori vs. The Morning11:58 — WGAS NewsBag!51:20 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:05:47 — Wrap-up! Black Bag; White Lotus; Severance Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    1h 31m

  6. MAR 11

    No Surprises Publishing (CIB #231)

    Show RundownOpen — Abe and the Profligate, Pauperish Pub Patron7:58 — The Speech to the Nation34:35 — WGAS NewsBag; Study finds happy wife, happy life; people and their robits; assorted other news bits50:58 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?57:47 — Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights in the Crosshairs! And a romance novel gets cancelled1:16:26 — Wrap-up! Last Breath; Mickey 17; Severance; The While Lotus; Impossible Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    1h 45m

  7. MAR 4

    One Neat Trick to Dismantle the West (CIB #230)

    There’s not a whole lot else to talk about besides what happened in the Oval Office last Friday, so that’s pretty much all we do this episode. Hopefully we bring some new perspective to the proceedings, or at least provide an opportunity to let off some steam. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe discovers eggs in the wild6:57 — Breaking WGAS News! Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine8:40 — Breaking down the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office disaster1:33:32 — Blind sports commentators, literally1:42:55 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:52:18 — Wrap-up! Remembering Gene Hackman in the modern classic…Under Suspicion; The Gorge; More Severance Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    2h 16m

  8. FEB 25

    The Infrastructure of Immiseration (CIB #229)

    What if much of the infrastructure of the modern world—or at least the technology and the roads and the food—has accidentally put into the hands of humans things that they know make them more miserable and that they absolutely cannot stop using, for an assortment of reasons? We discuss that and many other cheery topics on this week’s really quite fun episode! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe delighting in the demise of the aged, once again8:32 — Trying to imagine the mind of the reality-denier27:07 — WGAS NewsBag! Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, and what it means when the US turns away from the world59:00 — DOGE wants to know what you did last week1:06:43 — Our Bogus Future: Study shows smartphones are bad for humans1:22:22 — Did CBS News’s Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:38:46 — Wrap-up! Cleaner; The Lex G Movie Podcast; Godzilla Minus One Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber. The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

    2h 3m
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